Would The Posters

[romegajacket]

A lot of the posters here seem to really know a lot about football, especially GT football, very "football intelligent". Then again, some appear to be more like myself, intelligently "football challenged". Some here can really break a game down and pick out the good points as well as the problems. For me, I just like to watch the game, see who runs or catches the ball and how much they gained/lost doing it. Again, I fall into the "challenged" group.
I still have trouble reading defenses and understanding what the different "Covers" mean. (cover-1, cover-2, etc)

I would like to see how many of the posters here actually played college football, so if you don't mind too much, please reply with your screen name and where you played.

In no way is this post intended to be critical of or making fun of anyone at all, that will never happen. I'm just curious as to how many and who really played football in college.

Some of you went on into the pros and if you will list that too.

I appreciate your cooperation!!

Thanks much.

 

[beej67]

Never played, nor coached, football, but I can tell you the difference between Cover 2 and Cover 3, if you'd like.

beej67,
offensaholic

 

[76tornados]

Cover 1 and 2 have to do with what D your safeties are doing. The CB's are in man with the wideouts and the safeties play cover zone(1 or 2 safeties playing back). Otherwise the safeties would be playing man. the safeties decide by reading QB on what WR they will double up on. I am sure there is a better description from someone else, but I think that is right.

 

[GTWannaBee]

I never played college, but I started five years in high school (started as an eigth grader) for a small school in Savannah. I don't consider myself an expert in football, but I don't consider myself a novice either. There's no knowledge like experience. Since I only played high school ball, all of my college football knowledge comes from watching games.

Plus, we played 8-man football my junior and senior year.

 

[beej67]

Defensive nomenclature, as I understand it:

Generally, if there's a number after the name of a defense, that number indicates how many DBs are in deep zone. So Cover 2 means the two safties split and each takes half the field, while Cover 3 means both safties and one corner drop and split the field into thirds.

The word before the number indicates what's going on between the safties and the line of scrimage. So Cover 2 means 2 safties in deep zone and everyone else in short zone. Man 1 means man-to-man coverage underneath and 1 deep safety. Dog 3 means 3 DBs back in zone, and some sort of blitz-and-cover scheme up front.

At least that's how I understand it. I'm no expert.